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1THE AZAD KASHMIR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1948 1THE AZAD KASHMIR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1948. (The Legal Practitioners Act, 1879) 2[ACT NO. XVIII OF 1879] [Dated October 29, 1879] AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO LEGAL PRACTITIONERS CHAPTER‑III OF PLEADERS AND MUKHTARS 10. No person to practise as Pleader or Mukhtar unless qualified.‑----- Except as provided by this Act or any other enactment for the time being in force, no person shall practice as a pleader or mukhtar in any Court not established by Royal Charter unless he holds a certificate issued under section 7 and has been enrolled in such Court or in some Court to which it is subordinate: Provided that persons who have been admitted as Revenue‑agents before the first day of January 1880, and hold certificates, as such, under this Act in the territories administered by the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, may be enrolled in manner provided by section 9 in any Munsif's Court in the said territories, and on being so enrolled may appear, plead and act in such Court in suits under Bengal Act VIII of 1869 (to amend the procedure in suits between Landlord and Tenant)12 or under any other Act for the time being in force regulating the procedure in suits between landholders and their tenants and agents.